Kosovo: What is Conveniently Forgotten

by Jan Oberg

With "the father of the nation" in Kosovo, Dr. Ibrahim Rugova and his
colleagues, we worked out the model - until KLA/UCK was formed in 1993 and
began to undermine his unique non-violent leadership - for a Kosova with
open borders, no army, non-aligned with any military system, promising never
to unite with Albania or other Abanian-inhabited territoires and - not the
least! - achieved through negotiation, dialogue and international mediation
assistance by the UN and others. . . .

The historic nationalist leanings, the ethnic cleansing policies, and
militarism of the murky UCK, the Kosovo Albanian Liberation Army, KLA, that
became NATOs ally on the ground after having been supported by CIA and the
German Intelligence Service - all conveniently forgotten in most media and
European/US statements today.

The US and the Clinton Administration's documented lies about Milosevic'
Hitleristic genocide plan (he was bad enough, but not that stupid and
neither a Hitler), the left's, one-sided human rights and peace activists'
and Green enthusiasm for NATO's "humanitarian intervention" will be
neglected.

It will be forgotten that the international community overlooked the Kosovo
conflict while a few of us predicted war there 7 years before it actually
happened as a result of the fact that no mediation initiative was taken.

It is also forgotten on Sunday that the highest civilian leader responsible
for the destruction of Yugoslavia was NATO S-G Javier Solana; he was
rewarded by being kicked upwards to the post of EU foreign policy chief.
This non-convicted war criminal has a personal interest in seeing Kosovo
independent - otherwise his and Wesley Clark's destruction of Yugoslavia was
a mistake! . . .

With Palestinians, Serbs and Muslims/Muhamad, grosso modo, racist attitudes,
lack of empathy and collective punishment is politically very correct -
indeed the only way to think.